Nonsense Quotes - page 4

Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it. (Neil Postman)
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. View quote
Max Beerbohm
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need. View quote
Stendhal
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong. View quote
Peter Greenaway
It's nonsense that people join the army to serve the country, like the politicians do it only for the sake of the country. View quote
Sam Manekshaw
He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swallow for long. At conferences Manstein often differed from Hitler, in front of others, and would go so far as to declare that some of the ideas which Hitler put forward were nonsense. View quote
Erich von Manstein
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
Like Karl Kraus, [Wittgenstein] was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear-particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality. (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine-in fact one shudders to imagine-a child of today reading and enjoying it. View quote
Martin Gardner
If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. View quote
Edmund Wilson
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. View quote
Warren Bennis
While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
The introduction of the digit 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps... View quote
Alexander Grothendieck
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. View quote
Mike Tyson
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. View quote
Frank Herbert
This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. View quote
Winston Churchill
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I just can't sit while people are saying nonsense in a meeting without saying it's nonsense. View quote
James D. Watson
Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense. View quote
Franz Kafka
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre